About GTAP: PhD Students

Lauren Benavidez

Spring 2026

Dissertation: "Three essays at the intersection of food systems, economics and climate change"

Interests/Skills:

  • International Trade and development
  • Food security and nutrition
  • Land use
  • Climate change

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Yutaro Inoue

Summer 2028

Dissertation: "Essays on Trade, Environment, and Policy"

Interests/Skills:

  • International Trade and Environment
  • Non-tariff Measures
  • Econometric Analysis

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Pattawee Puangchit

Winter 2025

Dissertation: "Impacts of the Non-tariff Measures and Regional Trade Agreement on Trade Flows: Analysis of ASEAN Economic Community"

Interests/Skills:

  • International Trade
  • Trade Policies and Non-tariff measures/barriers
  • CGE modeling
  • Agribusiness Marketing

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Kavitha Srikanth

Spring 2027

Dissertation: TBD

Interests/Skills:

  • Environmental and Agricultural Economics
  • Land Use
  • Environmental policies
  • Sustainable development
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation

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Junyan (George) Tian

Spring 2028

Dissertation: Essays in Development Economics

Interests/Skills:

  • Natural resilience
  • Impact assessment
  • Climate and crop modeling
  • Trade policies

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